On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:55:04AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > We are doing what you describe right now. So the current code is broken? > > Yes. > > How about getting rid of the slabs there and use kmalloc? Kmalloc in mm > (and therfore hopefully 2.6.24) will convert kmallocs > PAGE_SIZE to page > allocator calls. Not sure what to do about the 1k and 2k requests though.
The problem is that we must never use kmalloc pages, so we always need to request a page or more for these. Better to use get_free_page directly, that's how I fixed it in XFS a while ago. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
